Praise for Alexander McCall Smith:
“A writer who charms many readers . . . McCall Smith’s characters are well drawn and alive.”
—Providence Journal
“McCall Smith’s accomplished novels [are] dependent on small gestures redolent with meaning and main characters blessed with pleasing personalities . . . These novels are gentle probes into the mysteries of human nature.”
—Newsday
“McCall Smith’s novels are beautifully precise and psychologically acute.”
—The Independent (London)
“An excellent old-fashioned storyteller.”
—The Gazette
“McCall Smith’s generous writing and dry humor, his gentleness and humanity, and his ability to evoke a place and a set of characters without caricature or condescension have endeared his books to readers,”
—The New York Times
“A vivid observer and an elegant writer.”
—The Plain Dealer